Feb 19, 2013 | Forbes
It was as cold as north of the Wall at the New York City Game of Thrones event last night, but unlike the Night’s Watch, we could eventually take shelter at the Union Square Best Buy. And unlike the Night’s Watch, we had all sorts of entertainment to keep us occupied,...
Feb 15, 2013 | Forbes
As fans (and fanfiction writers) of Star Trek know, Kirk and Spock make a great team. That’s because Kirk is the rough-and-tumble leader, and Spock is the cooler-headed second-in-command. So when making the upcoming Star Trek the Video Game, the developers knew that...
Feb 11, 2013 | Forbes
“Chaos isn’t a pit,” says Petyr Baelish, “Chaos is a ladder.” He would know. In Game of Thrones (and in the books, A Song of Ice and Fire), Petyr is a minor noble from a poor family who had climbed his way to the title of Westeros’ master of coin. Although we don’t...
Feb 4, 2013 | Forbes
Thunderbirds was a 1965-1966 British science fiction series that had it all: Heroic do-gooders. Malign evil-doers. Spaceships. Gadgets. Puppets. Submarines. Wait, what was that other thing? Did she say “puppets?” Yup(pets). Thunderbirds was made in “supermarionation,”...
Jan 30, 2013 | Forbes
Thirty years ago, actress Joanna Cassidy, who played the replicant Zhora in Blade Runner, was supposed to have had a dancing scene with an artificial snake, but the scene was never shot. Recently, she made up for it by producing her own version of that snake dance,...
